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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, I860.
The Vote of West Virginia.—Full
returns from West Virginia show that
Jackson, Democrat, for Governor, has a
majority over Sturgis, Republican, of 10,-
207 votes— an increase ot more than 3,000
over any other election.
The Gikls in Power.—The female
clerks in almost all the government de
partments in Washington literally hold
the fort just now. There never before
has been such a clearing out of the male
clerks to go home and vote. The strenu
ous efforts made by the Republican Cam
paign Committee to send every Republi
can voter in Wash'ngton home in time
for the election engender the suspicion
that there is not that confidence in Gar
field’s election which it might naturally
be supposed was felt from the boastings
which have been indulged in.
A miner had a wonderful ride in a tin
pan in Colorado. Being at the top of a
mountain, and desiring to get to the botr
tom of the valley, he knew that a tedious
and circuitous walk of fifteen miles was
necessary by the ordinary route, while
the distance straight down the snow cover
ed incline was only three. Ho had such
a pan as miners use in washing out gold.
Squatting down in this, away he went,
faster and faster, nnlil the solder of the
vehicle was melted by friction, and he
was almost insensible from lack of breath
But the trip was quickly over, without
any mishap, and the passenger now de
clares that he enjoyed it.
A cate in east Tennessee is two miles
in length, and has openings at both ends.
The owners Of the ground around the en
trances charged for admission, and acted
as guides for visitors. Their rivalry led
to serious fights in the cave, for each held
the other to be a trespasser. Then one
of the contestants hit upon a novel and
effective means of ruining tlie other’s bus
iness. He sunk a shaft so as to admit a
large stream into the cave at the centre,
and, as there was an incline in
lavorable direction, the water poured out
at the enemy’s portal, while his own was
unobstructed. The rfiatter is to be made
the subject of a lawsuit.
The Christiancy case came up In Wash
ington on Saturday, before Judge Cox,
upon an application ot Mr. Christiancy
for a reduction in the alimony ($160 per
month) allowed to Mrs. Christiancy. His
application represents that he is engaged
in public business abroad and cannot
safely go to trial of his case until he re
turns to Uiis country, and that although
bis salary is $10,000 per annum he is in
debt at heavy interest and his expenses
are very large, so that only about $4,000
per annum is left from his salary. Mrs.
Cliristancv, In reply, files an affidavit de
nying that Mr. Christiancy’s expenses in
Peru are as great as he represents them
to be. The Court reduced the alimony
from $150 to $100 per month.
The Situation in New York—The
New York Herald, which has been claim
ing that State for Gen. Garfield since the
October elections, now admits that the
increase in the registry in New York city
and Brooklyn Is calculated to give uneas
iness to the supporters of the Garfield
ticket, and adds: “In spite of their mani
fest advantages, the Republicans of New
York are by no means out of the woods,
although the chances seem to bo in tlicir
favor.” On the other hand Gen. Faulk
ner, Chairman of t]ie Democratic State
Committee, In a speech in Irving Hall,
Tuesday evening last, predicted that, with
an honest vote, the Democratic majority
in the State of New York would be 50,-
000.
^ The Jay Gould Mississippi Barge
Line.—According to the New Orleans
Prices Current, “the Jay Gould barge
line for the transportation ot grain down
the Mississippi will, In a very short while,
assume proportions which will astonish
oven tiie most sanguine river-route men,
The business is to be pushed to Its fullest
extent, and many of tho railroad lines
will act as fccdcra to these barges; while
floating elcvatois, as many as may be
•needed, will he put to work here, to facil
itate the prompt forwarding of the grain
acrois the ocean. This is not Intended
os a mere experiment or spasmodic effort,
but is the result of deliberate business
calculation, and backed by sufficient cap
ital and pluck to carry out the views of
the projectors. 'Tho line will have its reg
ular agent here and intends, If necessary,
to furnish its own ocean tonnage.”
A Close Election Probable.—A
New York letter to the Philadelphia Pub
lic. Ledger says tliero are many thoughtful
persons and close observers of events out
side of the regnlar party lines who begin
to think the election, after all, will be very
dose, and that It will bo one or two oftbe
smaller Stales—Florida or Delaware, or
Nevada for example—that will have to
finally decide It. In that case it Is fore
seen there will be opportunity for crooked
proceedings on the part of the respective
leaders, which they will be but too eager
to turn to account, and from that fact it
is apprehended a deal of excitement and
trouble may come. It is not^Ortli while
to be borrowing trouble, or to be worry
ing over contingencies that may never
happen, hut at the same time It is well to *
calculate possibilities, so as to be prepar
ed to meet them without exposing our
selves to the panic which comes of sud
den surprises. In any event there can be
no question that there will be occasion for
every body to keep Ids temper within tlie
next ten days, never doubting that, let
the professional politicians wrangle as
they may, tho will of tho people w .1 be
respected, and that is tlie main point.
' How New Yoek Will Go.—Grant
stated, on Friday, that he was willing to
wager a thousand cigars that New York
would give 40,000 majority for Garfield.
That is to say, if it did not do so, ho would
present » thousand cigars to any gentlo-
roaii v.'ill lug to maintain the converse or
that t ro:»ositlon. John Kelly, on the other
hand, was willing to risk a good deal that
1 dik would ix-at Garfield f-i.OOO
Chronicle’s Cotton Yigftres.
The New York Chronicle of Saturday
reports tlie receipts of the tfeek ending
last Friday night, 29tli ult., at 254,830
bales, against 240,613 the corresponding
week of last year. Total receipts at tlie
ports since 1st September, 1,304,200 bales,
against 1,222,130 for the same period of
tlie last cotton year, showing a net In
crease of 172,161 bales. %
The Interior port business of the week
was as follows: Receipts 125,763 bales,
against 102,790 last year. Shipments 98,-
832, against 83,054 last year. Stocks
170,076, against 115,735 at same date last
year.
The Chronicle?s statement of visible
supply shows 1,806,800 bales in sight last
Friday, against 1,000,350 In sight a year
ago, 1,002,188 in 1878, and 1,524,202 in
sight in 1877 at equal dates. These fig
ures show 288,450 bales’ increase on the
supply of last year—303,012 Increase on
the supply of 1878, and 871,538 bales in
crease on tho supply of 1877 at same
dates. Middling upland in Liverpool last
Friday was quoted at 0J. Last year, at
the same date, the quotation was 7|. In
1878, at'same date, it was quoted at 5
11-10, and in 1877, C|.
As to Friday’s telegrams from the crop,
they report generally favorable weather
for picking, but the process much retarded
by election excitement tn Texas. High
wind alone prevented a killing frost. In
Louisiana, at Shreveport, there had been
1.40 of rain in the week and roads in poor
condition. In Mississippi, there were two
and a half indies of.rain in Columbus.
In Arkansas, at Little Rock, there was
rain on four days and a fall of 1*40. In
Tennessee, at Memphis, rain on four days
and but two days of picking weather dur
ing the week. There was a killing frost
on Friday night, 22<1 ult. At Nashville
2.40 of rain in the week.
In Alabama, at Mobile, there was 4.57
of rain in the week ending last Friday. At
Montgomery and Selma very little rain.
At Madison, Florida, two days of rain. At
Columbus, Georgia, one day. Savannah
two days, Augusta one. At all points the
crop is moving to market freely.
VttMMponaWa for It
Brethren, if any of you are dissatisfied
with the national administration elected
yesterday several consoling reflections
maybe suggested In the case. First, you
baro got as good a government as any
body in the United States can boast. A
good many may claim that it will be
better for them than for you; but their
numbers in -any community are small,
and in Georgia particularly 6inall. The
political flesh pots In Georgia are propor
tionally unimportant. The great bulk of
our people have achieved in the election
nothing more for themselves than foryou.
It is pleasant to feel that you have carried
the day, but the smart of defeat soon
passes away.
A second consolatory reflection la that
you are without responsibility for the
consequences. There may be a great deal
of evil justlv to be feared, but It Is none
of your bringing, and we must trust a su
perintending Providence to avert it. It Is
a great country we belong to. There are
so many people in it that comparatively
few can have their own way.
The wisest cannot foresee many of the
grand causes which will operate to de
termine its course and destiny. We can
only judge that the same Power which
has so marvelously developed this mighty
republic at a rate of progress so far in
advanoc of any other example in human
history, did it for some grea’, good and
beneficent ends to tbo whole human fam
ily. It is not to perish out ignominiously
by its own corruption arid falsity to . its
lofty principles and traditions. In some
way, we may not understand how, It will
be delivered from the mastery of Corrupt
men, and be restored to honest and patri
otic administration and usages; and
while we know that death and the grave
are inseparable alike from msr&l^ and
physical corruption, let us assume,'* with
equal confidence, tho existence of suffi
cient vitality m tlie great body of the
American people to throw off the gan
grene and resume a state of life and
health, however unpromising existing as
pects may appear.
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discrepancy is wide. It
Norwood and Colquitt in
trail in licvcs the vote will
- body is going to be
day* i
Cost of Picking Cotton.
The New York Cotton tells us in Its
last Issue:
Some of the Southern papers have ex
pressed surprise at the estimate made by
a correspondent of Bradslreel's, that it
costs S40.000.000 tn pick tho cotton crop;
but, as that estimate is made on the basis
of 50 cents per 100 pouuds for picking,
and as fully 80 cents is the prevailing rare
in Texas, while as high as $1.25 has been
paid this >car, it is probable that $50,000,-
000 would belter represent the cost of
icking out the cotton crop of tbo United
tales. Of this amount probably $30,000,-
000 is paid to colored men.
Perhaps, says the Columbia Register,
those who hold the above estimate too
lilgb do not compare the figures with the
cost of picking a good deal of cotton gath
ered by hands regularly employed forcer-
tain wages. At $10 per month and feed,
this, all told, would perhaps not exceed
$13, which amounts to 40.4 cents per day.
The usual limit ot a hand’s picking is ten
bales of 500 pounds. This calls for an
average picking per day—from the 15th
of August to tlie 15th of November inclu
sive—of not less than 100 pounds, which,
at above wages, would cost a little over
30 cents a hundred. But as this Is al
most, if not quite, double the average of
production per hand in tbo country, and
the picking begios before and ends after
the above period, at lower rates ot gath
ering, tlie cost of picking cotton per hun
dred with wages bands cannot fall short
of 05 cents; and special labor under the
pressure of a full blow is, of course, paid
more.
It Is not far from the truth, then, all
around, to put the cost of picking at 70
cents a hundred, which, on a crop of $5,-
500,000 bales of 400 pounds each, amount,
ing to 8,500,000,000 pounds of seed cotton-
calls for $50,500,000. In round numbers
it must cost $GO,000,000 to pick Ibis crop.
Wo believe, from a close estimate of the
same, that at least four-fifths of this money
Is paid to colored pickers, which is $40,-
000,000 a year paid to colored men,
women and youtlis to gather the cotton
crop.
What May be Expected.
The triumph of the Republican party
means something more than the election
of Garfield, ne is personally a good
uatured man, but, as Judge Poland, of
Vermont, describes him, wanting in back
bone and faltb in bis own judgment,
is true, if be bad not sold out to the Stal
warts he wouid never have been elected,
But now, in their power, he must needs
carry out their programme. He will be
surrounded with all the influences of
Granllsm, and will be led to sanction
methods which his better judgment would
condemn. /
What we of the Sonth have to fear Is a
policy of irritation. We do not look for
any direct violation of tlje constltulion by
the administration, bnt they will pursue
such a course as to lead Southern men in
to indiscretions and to commit foolish
acts, thereby furnishing an excuse to con
tinue their persecution and interference
in our local affairs.
We have home much in tho past, and
our powers of cudurance having been
thoroughly tested, wc ought to be prepared
for every emergency that awaits us in the
future. We are rational beings; therefore,
knowing our enemies’ motives, let us give
no cause for an exhibition of their rancor
and hate. Their goads and jibes will be
thrust at us, but let us ward them off
by a dignified and consistent course, at
tending to our own State affairs, and look
ing after the prosperity of our own sec
tion.
Capt. Bates and Ills wife, formerly
thegtanU of Bamum’s show, recently
made the overland journey from San
Francisco. They are each nearly eight
feet long, and the sleeping car berths are
only six. In order to secure a comforta
ble bed, they took the opposite sections,
connected the upper berths with an ad
justable piece, and laid themselves cross
wise oftbe car, tlie other passengers kind
ly consenting to the partial obstruction of
the passage at night.
Their Name is Legion.—Atlanta is
the centre of attraction just mow for Geor
gians. Washington presents no attraction
to tlie average office-seeker from this sec
tion, and hence he packs his little grip
sack and hies away to Atlanta. Just
anything, sir, from tlie Senate of the Uni
ted States or Snpreme bench to a page’s
position in the House. It is a glorious
thing to be a member of the Legislature
just at tills writing. Free lunches, free
cigars and free whisky in abundance.
Bul then, the curses that are to follow—
the abuse of the disappointed—will make
a man wish lie wasn’t so popular.
No Sedan.
Tlie press telegrams In our last repre
sented the victory of Garfield as “a Dem
ocratic Sedan”—that is to say, a final col
lapse of the party in the United States.
Dismiss the idea. The Democratic party
has a great mission and a grand destiny.
It presents to-day the only practicable
rallying point around which the intelli
gent aud patriotic mind can gather for the
maintenance of free popular institutions
In America. The hope of tho country,
under God, is in the Democratic party.
For the time, terror over the possible loss
of an illusory and fictitious prosperity, co
operating with an utter prostitution of
federal power and resources, immense
pecuniary outlay, and the most relentless
bulldozing, has won an electoral majority
for Garfield; but it may well be doubted
whether the popular majority Is not on
the other side, and whether the Demo
cratic party does not still bold the confi
dence of the people.
But be this as It may, in the great and
final battle cf the people against place
power and wealth, the Democratic party
will yet win and re-establish the country
on its ancient foundations of popular sov
ereignty. It is yet to stand as the strong
and impregnable* bulwark of Liberty and
Popular Rights In America, and the man
does not live who will see other than a
strong,compact party. The poet says:
“Freedom’s battle once begun, though
baffled oft is ever won.” And so the
Democratic party, m spite of tbo tempor
ary triumph of personalism, imperialism,
strong government and all tho other stuff
oftbe kind, will brace itself anew for the
conflict to preserve republican government
in America.
Tlie illusive “prosperity” of to-day is
the result of abnormal conditions—crop
failures in Europe and extraordinary
abundance in America. Political com
plications abroad and peace here, attract
ing investments across the water, have set
stocks of all kinds booming. But there
is hardly a single sound idea in fluancc or
trade with which we are not at open war
as a government. The prosperity came
by a special providence and will disappear
with a change In the conditions. It is not
worth while for any man to count on it a
single year. We saw in 1873 the same
fabric disappear like a myth In a day.
That it will do again in a year or two.
Speculation and kite flying will all come
down, and Ills well for every man to re
member that fact. But one thlpg may be
considered certain, the whole aim and
tendency of the Grant and Garfield party
is tho prostration of the ballot and the
destruction of popular sovereignty In this
country.
NDlfDRIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Southwestern Railroad,November
1,1880.—The writer left Macoaon Satur
day and was rapidly and safely trans
ported to Cutlibert, where the peaceful
rest of the Sabbath was epjoyed in the
society of tried and well-beloved friends.
Again embarked “cn the rail” homeward
bound to-day ; as usual be proposes to
relate his experiences to the reader, if it
be possible to write amid the noise and
bustle of a crowded car.
IMPB1MI8.
On our outward trip we could seethe
Icy touch of “Jack Frost’s" fingers upon
the fields and forests, but this bad only
heightened the beauties of the landscape.
The cotton fields wore
, THE RUSSET HUE
of approaching winter, tbeugh.still flecked
with thousands of gay blossoms, and
studded with open bolls of the snowy
fleece. But it was evident that the “great
staple” had done its best for the present
season, and, under the stimulus of com
mercial fertilizers, favorable weather and
industrious “pickers,” three-fourths oftue
yield had been gathered, -and either mar
keted or housed.
To the credit of the farmers also, be it
spoken, they have come up like true men
and promptly met their obligations for
guano ana supplies. On the whole, there
fore, it may be confidently stated that the
people of Southwest Georgia are in
BETTER CONDITION,
and more prosperous than at any period
since the war. The price of land is look
ing up, new industries have been develop
ed in the shape of wine culture and early
frultsand vegetables for tho Northern
markets; rice and sugar-cane will soon
be added to tho staples cf the country,
and tho inhabitants generally
seem cheerful and in good heart.
Surely upon no region on earth lias the
munificent God of nature more lavisliing-
ly dispensed His favors. Iu Southern
Georgia the emigrant will find cheap land,
easily cultivated, excellent range for sheep
and cattle that require no housing or
“wintering,” fuel iu exhaustless supply,
s id a climate as soft and salubrious as
Italy. Grapes, sugar caue, the tea plant,
arrowroot, olives,pomegranates,peaches,
sand pears, figs, and In the southern
counties oranges, lemons and bananas
are grown in tbo greatest perfection. Tbo
soil is generous and responds magnificent
ly to artificial s.imulants, and tins Is m-
deed
THE TOOR MAN’S PARADISE,
where, with the least expenditure of capi
tal aud labor, he can cam a bountiful
support.
We trust therefore, that tho owners of
the soil will
UOIJ) ON TO TIIEIR PATRIMONIAL ACRES
ami utilize them to their own advantage
in future. Nowhere else in this broad
Union can they do better.
CUTUDERT.
This flourishing little city continues to
improve, aud is more of an educational
centre than ever. Three thriving, well-
appointed and officered literary institu
tions are established here. First in order
of age comes
ANDREW FEMALE COLLEGE,
which, since tbo return of Rev. A. L.
Hamilton, D. D., to the presidency, hks
more than regained all of its former pop
ularity and usefulness. By the most un
remitting energy the doctor has succeeded
iu raisiug a fund sufficient to put the
buildings and grounds in perfect condition,
and his catalogue now numbers 125 young
ladies. As a female educator and discip
linarian, lie has fow equals.
The branch of the State Agricultural
College also is doing well, near one hun
dred matriculates being in attendance.
Recently extensive additions havo been
made tn tlie apparatus of the College, and
the young men have been furnished with
arms by the State, and are regularly
drilled aud instructed iu military tactics.
There is still another institution in
Cutlibert called tlie “Grange College,”
which, under President McNulty and his
able assistants, is quite popular, amft
shows a patronage of over- eighty pupils,
some twenty of whom are girls. It will
be seen from tlie above that no place of
similar jfcpulation in tho Stato possesses
Educational advantages equal to those
that are offered in Cuthbert, nor is there
a healthier spot to be found in Geoigia.
LEGISLATORS ON THE TRAIN.
Quite a number of tbo newly-elected
law-givers of the State are on the train cu
route for the scene of their labors.
In conversing with some of them, nota
bly Colquitt men, we were much gratified
to learn that tlia proposed re-election to
the speakership of our distinguished
townsman, Hon. A. O. Bacon, was
favorably received. It would be
an honor gracefully bestowed by
the dominant wing of the Democratic
party, and go very far towards restoring
the entente cordiule which should exist
between men of the same political faith
who only differed for a season upon a
mere personal issue. We trust that in all
the pending elections by the General As
sembly the question, was this man for
Norwood or Colquitt, will never bo raised.
Is be competent, honest and patriotic;
these are the points to be considered, and
not whether be favored the one or the
other candidate for governor. Wc sin
cerely trust that Capt. Bacon will be
elected. II. H. J.
Marriage of U. S. Grant, Jr.—Last
Sunday Miss Fannie J. Chaffee, only
child of ex-Senator Jerome B. Chaffee, of
Colorado, was married to Ulysses Grant,
Jr., second son of cx-Preslder.t Grant.
Tbe wedding was private, there being
present only ex-Presldent and Mrs. Grant,
Col. Fred Grant and wife, Jesse Grant
and wife, Hon.'S. B. Elkins and wife, and
J. F. Seymour and wife, of Michigan
Mrs. Seymour being an aunt of tbe bride,
and D. H. Moffatt, Jr., of Denver.
Judge Poland on General Gar-
Field.—The World of the 31st prints
the following: Montpelier, VL, October
30.—Judge Luke P. Poland, as President
of the Vermont Bar Association for tbe
past year, delivered the annual address
last Tuesday evening In Montpelier. On
Wednesday evening occurred tho “Bar
dinner,” and after the dinner the World?*
correspondent bad a long conversation,
in the presence of others, concerning tho
“Poland report” and General Garfield,
Among a number ot other things Judge
Poland said: “Tho trouble with Garfield
Is he has no back-bone; he lacks nerve;
he is a fine fellow and a very able fellow,
but weak; at tlie lime of our report Gar
field ought to bave come before us and ex
plained every thing at it was, but he got
frightened concerning all tlie hue and
cry about tbe Credit Mobilier business,
and did not dare to come out boldly and
make a plain statement. I think he is
honest aud honorable certainly, but great
ly in need of back-bone.” All of which
would seem to show that Garfield was
innocent of intentional wrong, but when
found out lied about it. If this be action
able, coine on with your courts.
An American lady, Mrs. Bead, of Wil
mington, Del., offers to contribute $15,000
for tbe election of a Protestant Episcopal
Church iu Nice, Switzerland, as a memo
rial to her husband, who died iu that city,
as soon as tbe land necessary for tbe pur
pose shall have been bought and paid for
by others and a clear title obtained.
The Present High Protective Tariff.
Now that tbe agony is over, and there
appears to he no longer any doubt that
tbe South has been banded ovor for an
other term of four years to tbe tender
mercies of tbe Radicals, it becomes our
people, without pausing for a single day,
to renew the struggle for tbelr constitu
tional rights, and once more organize to
oppose the corrupt and oppressive schemes
of the dominant party.
Prominent among these Is the continu
ance and possible increase of tbo present
iniquitous tariff, which is designed not to
cover the financial demands of the govern
ment that are needful and legitimate,but to
build up colossal fortunes for a favored few
at the cost of tlie consuming aud laboring
classes ot the country. -This whole sub
ject of protection for protection’s sake,
which Congress, through the committee
on ways aud means iu the House, so
sedulously refused to consider and pass
upon, has of late assumed new import
ance, and Is destined to form a most salient
factor in the future alignment of the polit
ical parties both North and South.
While it is true that the revenues of the
government can be most conveniently aud
easily raised by the imposition of duties
upon imports, still, these ought to be con
fined as much as possible to articles of
luxury, while tbe tree list should embrace
tbe necessaries of life, and such leading
commodities, like paper and steel rails,
for instance, as are needed for the de
velopment of tbo industries of the country.
In the great agricultural West it Is to be
hoped tlie South will find a potential ally
in the effort to reduce to a revenue stand
ard only, that tariff which is now operated
so unequally and unjastly upon tbe masses
oftbe people.
The following extract from an editorial
in the Philadelphia Record presents tiie
whole question appositely, and with much
force :
German Carp-—There has been au
effort on tlio part of several enterprising
gentlemen in Georgia to introduce into
our ponds and lakes a Uah known as tho
German carp. The enterprise is regarded
now as a success. The Hon. W. £■ Smith,
of Albany, has taken considerable inter
est in the matter, and writes tbe follow
ing in tbe Albany Mews and Advertiser.
He says:
The little pond into which Dr. Patillo
placed a portion of ids, on account of the
absence of rains, became nearly dry.
From this pond Dr. Patillo took two carp,
each one of which weighed between eight
and ten pounds and were about twenty
inches iu length. One ho gave to me,and
a portion of another he gave to Rev. Mr.
Felder. My fish was baked. I found it a
beautiful white with scarcely any bones,
and of a delicious flavor.
This experiment of propagating this
valuable food fish in this country, and in
our pond3 and lakes, I consider as de
monstrating, beyond all doubt, the feasi
bility and practicability of such enter
prises.
Should the carp In other ponds thrive
as those of Dr. Patillo’s, I will be able to
furnish my neighbors with any number
of young ones next spring. My friend, J.
M. Cutliff, Esq., intends making an ex
amination oftbe lakes and ponds planted
with carp. Hon. Fish Commissioner of
Washington, aud also our State Commis
sioner will furnish you with young carp
on application.
Baoonand the Speakership.
“If Bacon and myself were not on
speaking terms, I would voto for him for
Speaker of tbe nouse of Representatives
upon the score of economy,” said a prom
inent politician yesterday. “I think he is
the best presidingofllcerthateveroccupled
a chair. He can tell the name of a man
and the county he represents be I ore ho is
on the floor ten minutes. I hope the
effort of Brown, Colquitt & Co. to beat
him for tlie speakership will fail, as by tbe
election of Bacon as speaker the State will
be very materially benefited. Ho can
accomplish more business in a day than
many other men can in a week, and Do
the work more satisfactorily. By the way,
1 hear that Colonel Hammond,ol Thomas
county, stated to Colonel K. !•'. Lyon, of
Maoon, a few. days since, that under no
consideration would he oppose Colonel
Bacon for tho position of presiding officer
oftbe House.”—Atlanta Post.
We copy the above to indorse all that is
said aboutourtownsman. We have never
entertained auy fears about bis rc-electlon.
The reference to the effort of Brown, Col
quitt As Co., Is about as senseless as tbe
charges of tlie Post against Colquitt
during tlie canvass.
The present protective tariff abounds in
inequalities aud absurdities. It undoubt
edly stimulates manufactures, but it cuts
off tlie foreign market for surplus produc
tion. It encourages the production of
more manufactured goods than our own
country can consume, and, at tbe same
time, keeps up prices above tbe market
rates outside. It enables a comparatively
smell class of manufacturers Lo make
money very fast, wliilo it bears bard upon
tlie agricultural and commercial classes.
The farmer is not protected by our tariff,
but it makes him pay more for nearly
every article ho buys. If all interests
were “protected,” no single interest would
gaiu anything by it. Our tariff favors
one class at tlio expense of all oth
ers. For every dollar that tho system of
“protection” puts into the treasury of the
government tho peoplo pay two or three.
In a tariff for revenue it only
costs tbo people a dollar and
tbo cost ot collcctiou to put a dollar in
tbe treasury. A lax on tea and coffee, for
instance, is all revenue. But a tax on
safe means that the people shall pay an
additional price, not only for all foreign
salt brought into the country, but for alt
the salt produced here. Our manufactur
ers no loiiger need protection on tbe scale
of our present tariff. A little wliile ago the
duty on steel was about 25 percent, more
than tbe Ural cost in England. Did our
steel makers need that protection? Docs
it cost twice as much to make steel here
as iu England, to say nothing about tbe
freights? Our fanners, who have no pro
tection, are producing nearly all our ex
ports. They must compete with foreign
farmers on equal terms. They could do it
well enough were they not tax
ed for the benefit of man
ufacturers. Tho high protective
tariff is the true secret of the decay of our
mercantile marine. Wo cannot compete
with foreign nations when, because of the
tariff, it costs more for us than for them
to build aud sail ships. Everything else
has been sacrificed to tbe maupfacturcrs,
but now it begins to react against the
manufacturers. If wo had our proportion
of the carrying trade of the world, wc
should have established steamship Hues
everywhere, and, by these lines, we should
send out our surplus manufactures. We
should supply Mexico and Central aud
Soutli America, and, to some extent, Asia
and Austialia. We cannot row, because
it costs us more to build and sail ships
than our rivals—all on account of the
high tariff.
Affairs in Ireland.
The World correspondent in Louden
gives au alarming report from Irelaud in
the following dispatch:
London, October 30.—Tho statement
published in your columns on Wednesday
of this week to tho effect that an appeal
for aid for tlio agitators In Ireland had
been formally made in America by Mr.
Michael Davitt bas been telegraphed to
ibis side of tho water and has produced a
deep sensation both here and iu Ireland.
The leading agitators in the sister isle
having been making secret promises to
their followers that whenever aid was
needed it would be forthcoming from the
United .States, but the document publish
ed by the World is regarded as tbo first
actual evidence that lias been offered as
to the Irish in America “meaning busi
ness.” Tbo most exaggerated rumors arc
circulated in tho west of Ireland—a
district that has often expected to
seo and has at times actually seen
a foreign ally arrive to aid in a struggle
with the British power—to the effect that
an auxiliary army from America is even
now on its way. and there is consequently
an Increasing disposition to defy the gov
ernment and to incur the terrible chances
of a civil war. Tho universal cry is, “The
Americans will see us through,” aud the
masses aro encouraged in this belief by
tlio agents of tho agitation, who bellevo it
better, even wiser, as a matter of tempo
rary policy, to take the risk of bloodshed
ratlicr than see the whole movement per
haps collapse ignominiously.
SECRET PREPARATIONS FOR REBELLION.
Nightly drilling goes on secretly with
greater activity than ever, and there is re
ally an immense store of arms of all sorts
now hidden in all parts of Ireland. With
any active help ftom an American organ
ization, a revolution might he made to
break out any moment.
Taxable Property.—Tho total value
oPthe taxable property fn Charleston
county for the fiscal year 1880 is $20,821,-
055 of which $16,040,017 is real estate
and $9,874,138 in personal property.
This is au increaso of $358,557 over last
year, when the total amount of taxable
property was $20,462,408. Tbe valuo of
personal property this year lias been rob
ed $003,481, while that of real property
has been reduced $304,924.
4 “■ 1 ' ' •• * i-i
Tiie tmjroiilo ilip revalont among our
negro element that were they living to
gether as man and wife before euianclpa
tion they aro legally married. Thb b not
true. Tbe code of Georgia says that tbe
ordinance of matrimony must be perform
ed to render a union lawful. Where a
man was living with two women he must
choose one or tbe other and then be mar
ried to her by some authorized person.
Tiie Royal Ltbrary of Berlin lias Just
celebrated its first centenary in its present
rooms. It was founded by Frederick
William, “the Great Elector,” iu 1059,
but for many years oCnpied rooms quite
inadequate for tbo c6r lonience of readers
and for tbo storage of hooks. So, in 1780,
it migrated to tlio King’s Palace, In tbe
left wing of which It has just completed
Its first ceutury- When the Elector died,
the library numbered 20,000 volumes aud
1,018 MSS., while at present more than
809,000 volumes amt 15,000 MSS. are in
the posscsslonof the institution.
An Appeal to the American People.
“Messrs. Young Sc Co., Edinburgh, iu
calling attention to the revised edition of
their Concordance, which they now offer
to tbe American religious public tbrough
tbe medium ot Messrs. I. K. Fuuk Sc Co.,
New York, beg tossy that a publishing
firm iu America, without the slightest
effort to obtain the concurrence of either
the author or the publbbers, are attempt
ing to foist upon the community au unre
vised aud imperfect edition of the ‘Con
cordance,’ who, when written to on tho
subject, replied that they did not want or
care for our concurrence, and ended bv
generously offering to take copies, if
supplied at a lower prlco than they them
selves could produce them 1
“First editions aro necessarily more or
less imperfect; but without attempting to
correct even the most obvious typographi
cal errata, they are reprinting verbatim,
leaving out most Important omissions
corrected in the second edition.
“Tho “Concordance’ may be regarded
as tbe practical outcome of forty years’
study of the Hebrew and Greek Scrip
tures, which the author commenced fn
1840 and has kept up daily ever since.
“But Dr. Robert Young is not only the
author, he is the sole proprietor of the
work which cost him thousands of pounds
sterling for printing, besides three years
of labor night and day in carrying it
through the press. .
“In the view of these facts we cannot
but trust that every right and honorable
minded Christian man and woman in the
United States will prefer to all others tlie
beautifully printed and carefully revised
edition which we are now offering at the
price of paper and press work, and’ will
send at once their order to I. K. Funk &
Co. Georoe Adam Young & Co.”
“Edinburgh, Scotland, Oct. 14,1880.”
Agricultural Sots From California.
A San Francisco correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says:
One thing is wauting in Baltimore
which seems to need mention and intelli
gent description. It is an alimentarium,
or food museum. The alimenlaria, seen
iu the museums of Manchester and South
Kensington, London, exhibit in a sinmi-
larly demonstrative way, the special value
to the human system of everything we
eat and drink. There are many long
rows ol flat showcases, covered with
glass. In each case Is tbe fac-simile of a
pound of what wc consume—meat, bread,
com, oats, butter, eggs, oysters, coffee,
tea, sugar, cocoa, mushrooms, rice, all
sorts of vegetables, colored. Also opium,
tobacco, spirits, and many other things.
Every article has annexed lumps repre
senting the amounts of fibrin, albuuieu,
starch, gluten, sugar, gum, casein, miner
als and ashes extracted from tbe
pound; also pliials containing tbe
spirit, water, etc. Above each
case are perpendicular charts in
show type, indicating tlio peculiar proper
ties of each article, viz., which makes
muse'?, bone, fat, brains, heat, etc.,
which is best for certain temperaments,
etc. Tbo order of digestibility Is given;
what promotes cbeei fulness, and minis
ters to sleep. The elemental constituents
of every article are given on the chart—
so much carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxy
gen, etc. Nothing interests more than
tlie lumps of fat, butter, gum, starch,
casein, potash, tannin, theobromine, caf
feine, tlieiiie, etc., extracted from a ]iound
of coffee, of tea, and of cocoa. Tobacco
makes au instructive and repulsive revela
tion. A pbial of dark fluid represents
the amount of nicotine in a pound of to
bacco, and tbe chart exposes its deadly
poisonous effects. Tbe analysis shows
410 grains of tbe poison, seven grains
of oil of tobacco, besides gum,
albumen, sugar, starch, ash, aud coloring
matter. With our pretensions to su
perior education and enlightenment, it is
singular that oil this American continent
there ,'s no such thing as a food museum
for path object-teaching in 60 useful
a branch of instruction. Is it creditable
to humanity that men in this generation
know no more than swine at tiie trough
of the nutritive principles of food that
ministers alike to the mind and to the
body? What an opportunity is here for
Baltimore to outrank all other cities on
this continent in intellectual progression!
The governors of the English food mu
seums assured us that, in the interest of
science, they would supply duplicates to
an American institution at a rate so rea
sonable as to be quite satisfactory. A
thousand visitors every week are attracted
chiefly by the food department and the
lectures of the attendants. It pays rich
ly there. Can it do less in Baltimore ?
A new system of cattle fanning is com
ing into vogue in Nevada State that may
be followed elsewhere with profit. After
the manner of alteration in making oxen
they alter their cows by extracting the
ovaries. Though unsexeu, they continue
to give milk indefinitely. They increase
notably In weight, and their flesh becomes
juicy and tender as that of oxen. In
tbe valley of tho Humboldt and its
branches tho assessor returns 3,000 spayed
cattle at double valuation. It is seldom
that one is lost in s„«o surgical operation.
Caponlzing fowls is analogous. Iu
France it is tho most profitable branch of
chicken culture. The capon doubles its
weight and its quality as lood. The sur
gery is done in a minute by children.
The 132 acres of cotton planted for ex
periment in Kern county, California,
proves the highest adaptability of a vast
area of land in Southern California coun
ties to cotton culture. It is now being
picked, and rigid Inspection by old plant
ers and by manufacturers shows that
California cotton will take the market as
fully equal to No. 1 average South Caro
lina cotton. A cotton factory is there
fore assured, and soon more will follow.
Experiments by the Kern County Indus
trial Association prove that sorghum
sugar is also a paying product.
The country press is unanimous in pre
dicting early rains and a frosty winter.
One says “See the wild geese coming
South;” another says “Behold the dry
springs show returning moisture;” an
other never saw the nuts of the forest so
abundant; another notes hurried activity
among reasoning animals, who layup
stores, as people do, against the wants of
winter, viz., squirrels, gopliere, wood
peckers, ants, etc. In the Atlantic States
weather signs count for something. In
California all signs fail of significance.
of au estate has to be made are so clear
that a very small percentage of cases ooihe
before the law courts; ?54y arc settled by
the parties themselves, assisted oy tlielr
legal advisers.
The Young Ken’s Christian Associa
tion.
Among the many institutions in our
midst that claim public attention, iV>ne
do more effective work according to their
very limited means than does the Young
Men’s Christian Association of Atlanta.
Besides its religious services held at its
hall, in Fulton county jail,at the Widows
Home, and among the poor each Sabbath
day, it visits during tbe week tbe hoaxes
of those who by reason of affliction or
old age are barred tbe privileges offered
by our churches. And besides tbe fore
going, it performs tbe practical service of
nursing the sick, and when necessary fur
nishing the medicine aud nourishment for
those who by misfortune are unable to se
cure the same.
During their last year these young
men sat by tbe bedside ot tiie sick aud
dying during one hundred aud fifty nights.
They are daily accumulating evidence of
their value to our city.
Many young men, strangers and alone
in our city, walking into tbe hall of the
association to pass away an hour, have
received a welcome and Impressions, the
first in a series of events, which have
drawn them from tlie “path that leads to
destruction.” They are about to in
augurate their winter’s feork in earnest,
and ask the co-operation of the young
men throughout our city. It is a work by
them and for them, but all are most
cordially Invited to meet with them at
their hall, No. 40| 'Whitehall street. |
Meeting every Sunday afternoon at four
o’clock. Go out and encourage them by
your presence.—Constitution.
The Georfria Legislature.
Spteial dispatch t» Megraph and Memeng^ ,
Atlanta, November 3.-The General
Assembly organized at ten o’clock m.
morning. la the House, A. O. Iw
was elected Speaker; Mark Hardin"
clerk; Benton Miller, doorkeeper
Smith, messenger. Twig^orKicl’morJ
acted as Speaker pro ten. l a the ^ 1
Boynton, of Spalding, was elected iw*
dent; Harris, of Worth, Secret*^
Allred, of Pickens, doorkeeper, Jj
Cameron, of Pulaski, messenger.
Organization was perfected and both
Houses are ready for busin** r™,
erable feeling was excited by the , .
(ion to Mr. B.con to ajhtoSKJ
tern. Twiggs withdrew this mom., 1 ,. ;*
a handsome speech. Bacon was u „t n i
mously elected. '*
The city is frill of candidates for
sorts of offices. There is much depression
on account of the result of the national
election. Carolynn.
College Burned.
Special dispatch to Telegraph and " j ij 1
Cuthbebt, Ga., November 3.—Tho
Southwest Georgia Agricultural College
was burned last night. Loss, $10,C00.
Insurance, $2,000. Supposed to be incen
diary. •
Wanted to See the Editor.—A man
on the rots was offered a newspaper. He
took it, looked at the heading, aud then
threw it aside with disgust and remarked:
“I don’t want news from that paper.”
“I supposed everybody read it iu these
parts,” I »iiswend. “Has it been pitch
ing into you?”
. “Pitchinginto me? Great Ctcsar? I
should think it had. But you just let ine
meet the editor of that paper?”
“You never make anything by strik
ing an editor,” 1 said; “belter grin aud
bear it.”
“Yes, that’s all right for you to say, but
just let me meet that man f I’ll show liim
liow to run a newspaper.”
“What did be do?”
“Do I He did a deal. Here’s how it is:
I often go to SpriDgCcld In the evening
and come home on the first train in the
morning. Well, one night I met an old
crony, and we went to the music hall and
the theatre. When we came out we met
some friends. Of course I could not get
right out, so I treated; In fact, we were
having a pretty good time} when some
fellow came in and tried to raise a row.
In less than no time the police were in
and had us. The next morning I was
hauled before the court and fined $7.40. I
did not care much, because 1 gave a false
name, and I knew my wife couldn’t find
it out; but tbe very next morning I’ll bo
eternally confused if Uiat paper didn’t
have it all in, and my name, too.”
“Did your wife see it?”
“I should say she did.”
“Did she make a fuss?”
“Fuss! Godfrey Elihu! Are you mar
ried?”
further particulars.
t Cuthbebt, November 3, 1880.—Tlie
largo, new building formerly known as
the Randolph Male High School building,
but more recently occupied by tbo Agri
cultural College, was burned last night.
Tlie fire was evidently the work o! an
incendiary. All the guns, the apparatus,
the furniture and the hooks in tbe lower
story were saved. The exercises oftbe
college will not be interrupted more than
one day, os tbe trustees bad but recently
put tbe large building formerly known as
tbe Bethel Female College in thorough re.
pair. Piesldent Sanford is energetically at
work there making ready for work to
morrow. W. II. C.
How the Pastor Lied.—Old Pa:son
S. of Connecticut was a particular kind of
petson. One ‘day lie bad a man plowing
in his field, aud he went out to see how
the work was‘getting on. The ground
was very stony, and every time the plow
struck a stone the man look occasion to
swear a little.
“Look here,” cried Parson S., ‘you
must not swear that way in my field.’
“Well, 1 rccou yon’d swear, too,” said
the man, “if you had to plow such a stony
field as this.”
“Not a bit of it,” said Mr. S. “Just let
me show you!’
So the parson took hold of tlie plow,
but he very soon had considerable trouble
with tlie stones. As stone after stone
caught the plow-share, Mr. S. ejaculated;
“Well, I never saw the like!”
And this he repeated every time a stone
stopped his onward way. As soon as he
had plowed around once, he stopped and
said to the mau:
“There, now.’ You see I can plow
without swearing.”
“But I guess it’s pretty near as bad to
lie,” answered tbe mau, “aud you told
dozens o’ lies. Every time tbe plow struck
a stone you- said, ‘I never saw tbe like,’
when tlie same thing happened a minute
before!”
A Kentucky negro married a white
woman, and had got as far as Somerset
on his bridal tour when she committed
suicide.
Heathen Law.
The Mohammedan law of Inheritance
recognizes no distinction between ances
tral and acquired or real and personal
property. It knows nothing of primogen
iture, and, generally speaking, it does
not admit right bv_ representation. If a
man leaves sons and sons of a deceased
son tbe latter are excluded, having no
rights as representatives of their father;
and so, if admail leaves only sons’ sons
they take equal shares per capita not per
stirpes. The relatives of a deceased per
son arc divided into three classes—shar
ers, residuaries and distant kindred. The
primary residuaries are tbe son, son’s
son, brother and brother’s son, uncle and
uncle’s son,aud “every male in whose line
of relation to the deceased no
female enters.” No female relative is
primarily a residuary, but females come
in subsequently; thus a son takes two
shares, tbe daughter then takes one.
These are tlie heirs to the bulk of the
estate after the claims of the specific
sharers have been settled. Tho sharers
are twelve iu number—four males and
eight females. The males are the hus
band, father, grandfather and brother; the
females arc the wife, daughter, mother
grandmother, sister, etc. Thu share of a
husbftnd is one-fouith, when there is a
male dcccndent, oue-lialf when there is
not; of a wife or wives, one eighth in the
former case aud one-fourth In the latter;
a father or grandfather’s share is one-
sixth. It is obvious that, iu default of
nearer male heire, some of these
“sharers” may be tbo “residuaries.”
In apportioning tbo properly
of a deceased person tlie fiut
business is to settle tlie rights of the
“sharers.” Mohammedan lawyers have
framed a number of rniuutc aud artificial
rules applicable to particular classes of
cases; but all questions of apportionment
aio easily solved by tbo processes of arith
metic, by bringing the fractional shares i
down to a common denominator. Thu
cases of inheritance which present them-
solves for settlement arc almost Infinite,
bat tiie principles upon which the division esteem,
The freshmen at the various colleges at
Cambridge, in England, this October,
number 701, as against 808 last year,
showing a diminution of.107.
At the Q'gliland ball at the Prince of
Wales’s seat, Abergcldlc, tbe Queen danc
ed a reel with her son, Lord Fife, and tbe
Princess Irene of Hesse, the first reel she
bad danced for years.
A California farmer got considera
ble fun out of wliat bad been au annoy-
anc2 by placing a stuffed deer in bis grain
field. The hunters, after emptying a
large amount of ammunition Into tbe an
imal, and discovering tlie fraud never tres
passed again. _
The largest cotton mill in tbe United
States bas just been opened at Williman-
tic, Conn. It is only one stoiy high, but
covers a spare of 820 feet by 174, all of
which is iu a single room, lighted at night
by fifty-one electric burners. Eighty
thousand persons can stand at once In this
building. \
A literal minded little fellow visit
ing on Cape Cod, who found the inscrip
tion in the village grave yard, “Not dead,
but sloepelb,” ran In alarm to bis mother
and said: “Wo must go homo right off,
I won’t stay here all night, anyhow.
They bury people here when they go to
sleep. I saw one of them out In the grave
yard, aud do you suppose I’ft sleep here
to-night and liave them bury me?”
The bonds which wore taken from tli*
counterfeiter Doyle wheu ho was arrested
in Chicago arc now undergoing a critical
examination by George W. Casilear, su
perintendent of the engraviug division of
the Bureau of Engraving aud Printing at
Washington. Au official statement will
be prepared by tlie department when tbe
examination shall have been concluded,
giving in detail the differences which ex
ist between tbo.forged bonds and those
which are genuine.
Pulaski county.
Special to Telegraph and Messenger }
Haawkinsville, Ga., November !L—
Hancocks’s majority over Garfield is 375.
Cook’s majority over Parker 330. This is
the vote of Pulaski county. D. R.
Oglethorpe Co-cnty.
Oglethorpe, November 3. — Tlie
official vote of Macon county Is: Han
cock, 703; Garfield, 748. Congress—
Phil Cook, C93; S. Wise Parker, 291.
J. M. G.
XIouroe County. x
Forsyth, November 3.—The voto of
Monroe county is: Hancock, 1,312;
Garfield, 1,023. Congress—Hammond,
3,408; Clarke, 1,000.
J. W. E.
. Putnam ronnty.
Eatoxton, November 3.—The of
ficial vote of Putnam county is:
Hancock, C27; Garfield, 1. Congress—
Blount, 010. Col. Blount got every vote
but one . polled that belonged in tbe
county. The eight votes that he runs
behind were polled by floaters that lived
out of bis district. I’utuatn bids for tbe
banner. J. S. A.
Prof. Swing, iu the Chicago Alliance,
thus appeals to theatrical people: “It
seems desirable that all our much-admir
ed actors and actresses should respect the
religious opinions and feelings of many of
their best friends and declino to produce
their plays oil that day sacred to religion.
If tbe wen and women of the church are
the frieuds now of tbe drama, can not the
great actors help tiie Christina world to
keep onu night of the week sacred to the
Almighty?” Referring lothe stage gener
ally Frof. Swing says: “Without pausing
to seek a philosophy for a new era iu this
shape of art, let us simply confess that the
lession of the actor can now point
with pride to a large group of men worthy
of their art and of a generous public
The Election in Bibb.
Below wc givo the full returns as re
ceived and consolidated yesterday morn
ing:
Court House.—Hancock, 1,109; Gar
field, 739; Blouut, 1,0S1.
- City Hall.—Hancock, 102; Garfield, 48;
Blount 98.
East Macon.—Hancock, HP; Garfield, 31;
Blount, 67. *
Godfrey.—Hancock, 80; Garfield, 1;
Blount, 80.
Warrior.—Hancock, 60; GarGcld, 0;
Blount, 57.
Hazzard—.Hancock, 41; Garfield, 0;
Blount, 37.
Rutland.—Hancock, 70; Garfield, 0;
Blount, 07.
Howard.—Hancock, 40; Garfield, 89;
Blount, 39. 1
Total vote—Hancock, 1,580; Garfield
908; Blount, 1,540.
Majorities — Hancock, 680; Blount,
1,040.
Compared with tho voto of 1870, as
produced below, it will be seen that there
has been a remarkable falling off.
In 1870 the vote of tho county was:
Court House.—Tildeu, 2,010; Hayes,
484; Blouut, 1,003; Gove,475.
City nail.—Tildcn, 9; Hayes, 555;
Blount, 9; Gove, 555.
Godfrey. — Tilden, 752; Hayes, 70;
Blount, 752; Gove, 70.
Warrior. — Tildcn, 300; Hayes, 0;
Blount, 300; Gove, 0.
n<uzard.—Tilden, 90; Hayes, 0; Blount,
99; Cove,0.
Rutland.—Tilden, 190; Hayes,0; Blount,
196; Gove,0.
Howard.—Tilden 51; Hayes, 170;
Blount, 51; Gove, 170.
Total—Tilden, 3,504; Hayes, 1,281.
Tilden’s majority, 2,083; Blount’s ma
jority, 2,102. «
This falling off is attributable to tbe
large number who aro disqualified by
non-payment of taxes.
Turner’s Majorities.
Specials to the Telegraph and X stenger.
Fort Gaines, November 3-—Turner’s
majority in Clay is 407- Everthing pass
ed off quietly. R. R- B-
Cuthbert, November 3.—Official re
turns from Randolph county gives Han
cock 174 majority. Turner, for Congress,
174 majority. C*
‘Arlington, November 3.—Calhoun
gives Turner six-three majority and Gar
field twenty—official. Turner will carry,
tbe district by 5,000 majority.
J.ft L>
Pennsylvania Coal Trade.—The'
Poltsville (Pa.) Miner’s Journal of yes
terday says: “ Orders for November being
considerably in advance of anticipations,
It has been determined not to order a stop*
page at present. Next week will be 4
broken week—a church holiday on Mon
day, a political holiday on Tuesday,
a general indifference to work on Wednes
day, will g|ve about all tbe leisure re
quired by the trade at present. The coal.
product of the Schuylkill region for tbe
week ended October 23 was 175,521 tons,
as against 174,772 tons for tbe week pre
vious, and 105,942 tons for tlie correspond
ing week of last year. The total product
for the week was (110,870 tons, against
007,832 tons for the same weekof last year,
an increase of 20,038 tons. The output
for tlie year so far is 18,540,744 tons,
against 21,233,743 tons for the correspond
ing period of last year, a decrease of 2,'S9 ; V
100 tons. The executive committee of
the Lehigh and Sehu> kill Coai Exchange
held a meeting Thursday afternoon at the
office of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Company, at which it was decided that
no clmtige in price for the mouth of Nnvcrn
her would be advisable.”